Law Professor and Alumni Represent Bar Association in Mission Concerning Separatist Conflict in Moldova

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A picture of the team with Igor Smirnov, the self-styled “President” of the break-away region. We had spent the day meeting with him and his associates. Left-right: Robert Abrams, former Attorney General of New York State and a partner at Stoock & Stroock & Lavan LLP; Barrington D. Parker, Jr., United States Circuit Court Judge in the Second Circuit; Smirnov; Mark A. Meyer, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and its Romanian affiliate, Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, graduate of St. John's University School of Law; Elizabeth Defeis, Professor of law and former Dean of Seton Hall University School of Law, graduate of St. John's University School of Law; Christopher J. Borgen, Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law.
A picture we took with a shop owner in a little village right on the edge of the contested area. Left-right (rear): Robert Abrams, former Attorney General of New York State and a partner at Stoock & Stroock & Lavan LLP; Christopher J. Borgen, Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law; Barrington D. Parker, Jr., United States Circuit Court Judge in the Second Circuit; Mark A. Meyer, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and its Romanian affiliate, Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, graduate of St. John's University School of Law. Storeowner in front.
Perhaps we should call this the First Annual Meeting of the Bucharest, Romania, Chapter of the St John’s Law School Alumnae Association. Elizabeth Defeis, Corin Trandafir, and Mark Meyer all attended St. Johns Law School. They let Professor Borgen be their 'faculty advisor.' Left-right: Christopher J. Borgen, Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law; Corin Trandafir, partner in Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, attended St. John’s University School of Law as a Fulbright Scholar; Elizabeth Defeis, Professor of law and former Dean of Seton Hall University School of Law, graduate of St. John's University School of Law; Mark A. Meyer, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and its Romanian affiliate, Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, graduate of St. John's University School of Law.
A picture of our team with President Vladimir Voronin of Moldova. We had just met with him to discuss the separatist problem. Left-right: Christopher J. Borgen, Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law; Robert Abrams, former Attorney General of New York State and a partner at Stoock & Stroock & Lavan LLP; Barrington D. Parker, Jr., United States Circuit Court Judge in the Second Circuit; Voronin; Elizabeth Defeis, Professor of law and former Dean of Seton Hall University School of Law, graduate of St. John's University School of Law; Mark A. Meyer, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and its Romanian affiliate, Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, graduate of St. John's University School of Law.
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